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From: Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net>
To: gnus <gnus@criptext.com>
Cc: info-gnus-english <info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to trap an error when connecting to a news server
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 09:08:54 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADoYgq9k9JPaQzXP6g7fxuOTemMCbp1H2PMBW-Q4b5Xf3zW07g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1578146518407.757655@criptext.com>


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>
>
> (defun news-check ()
>  (condition-case err
>      (message "The result is %s" (gnus-group-get-new-news))
>    (news-error
>     (message "I expect the server closed again %s",err)
>     )
>    )
> )
>
> I could be mistaken in this, but in your code above, where did you get
> 'news-error' as the name of the error condition raised? I can't find this
> anywhere in the gnus source tree. Do you know for sure that
> gnus-group-get-new-news (or anything it calls) raises that condition?


-- 
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i

Via Linux/Emacs/Gnus/BBDB.

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